Phil1111

Everyone in SC has heard of the trump Death Clock. Which now stands at over 87,000 American men, women and children. What has not been addressed by conservatives is the amount of debt that trump would have added to the national account. Which would have had no real benefit to all Americans. Currently it stands at $13 trillion over the four years that trump has been in control. As everyone knows trump promised to eliminate the national debt in his first eight years in office. That GDP would grow at 4,5 and even 6% per year under his administration.In fact despite that $13 trillion in additional debt and stimulus. US growth under trump has only been .3% better than Obama's. Thats three tenths of one percent better. The children of Americans will have to pay this off. Hard decisions will have to be made. Cuts to the benefits and programs of veterans.To Social Security, defense, education, etc. So the relevant question is how much of this $13 trillion is directly due to trump's largess to his friends, himself and to big business. If the 62% ratio of the death clock were applied to the 2020 $3.7T deficit the amount would be $2.29 trillion dollars. If that same ratio of incompetence was applied to the $13 trillion amount it would be just over $8 trillion of debt that trump would have been responsible for. Given that GDP growth above Obama's was only three tenths of a percent.That the US deficit to GDP this year is 17.9% (CBO figures). Do you feel 17.6% better off now than you were under the Obama administration?

Protests are not a homogeneous body of people. Anyone can join merely by walking into the group and they can have entirely different motives. Just as with LE some rouge officers decide to assault a law abiding citizen. Its important to keep in mind that some individuals within the protest movement. May have criminal motives completely separate from the protest and merely use the protest as cover. Anarchists so to speak.Just as there can be some cops who use the opportunity to "teach a lesson" to protestors. By aiming rubber bullets to the heads of peaceful protestors.

A sign from God. Soon there will be nothing left of trump anywhere. It will be as if he never existed.

Clowns with live rounds in the chamber. Clowns shooting protestors in the head with rubber bullets. Commanded by All the ways Trump’s closest confidants insult his intelligence

Both interesting but IMO owner repurchases of the same brand mean the most. Because you may have complaints but the rubber meets the road when you repurchase the same brand again. I know several people that bought new BMW autos beautiful cars, quiet, fast, etc. Not one ended up repurchasing another. Nightmare issues with electronics and very expensive repair bills. As soon as the warranty was done the cars were gone.

Tesla has the highest brand loyalty of any auto maker period.IF, IF they have higher initial defects as your quoted source alleges than some other auto's . Then they must address those defects, provide superior service, have a superior driving experience and reliability. That every other brand. in order to overcome those initial defect liabilities. Deciding that you don't like Tesla doesn't help your overall anti-EV agenda. Its a car company and is what it is. Obfuscation would be labeling the better educated, higher income Tesla buyers as "Muskophiles". IMO Honda is a no-brainer auto, a top choice.

The wife!. Come on man up the Germans have you and you know it. If a German sells it you buy it.

Boy have those Germans ever brainwashed you. As quality and product experience goes up, generally loyalty goes up. Quality, service, product satisfaction is directly related to loyalty. An inverse relationship would mean that poor quality i.e. increasing defects, poor customer service and poor brand experience would have increased loyalty. Your story is flawed as is your understanding of an inverse relationship. Sigh, trump is German so I guess that makes sense. The stupider trump is the more loyal his supporters become.Thats an inverse relationship.

Why Tesla has the most loyal customers. Sept. 6, 2014 Forbes, that would be the same source you quoted.1. A Good Experience Creates Loyal Customers Tesla has the most loyal customers of any car company with an overall satisfaction rating of 90%. A staggering 80% of customers buy or lease another Tesla for their next car. Some customers were even willing to wait years to get their Model 3s.Feb. 2019 Mercedes Benz customer loyalty 2019 44% Gee that would be 1/2 the loyalty of Tesla. Brent, quit while you're behind! You dig the hole deeper and deeper with every example. You haven't graduated from trump University have you?

Military veterans said they banded together to protect the free speech of demonstrators. "A week after federal officers in Portland, Ore., brutally struck a Navy veteran who said he had approached them simply to ask a question, a group of military veterans on Friday joined the front lines of the city’s growing protests. Duston Obermeyer, a Marine Corps veteran, said he and other veterans were there to make sure federal officers did not infringe on the free speech of protesters, who numbered in the thousands. “Our veterans are here specifically to support the rights of the protesters to protest,” said Mr. Obermeyer, who said he had deployed three times during a decade in the Marines." The question to be asked is why has US schools failed so miserably in teaching the values associated with the US constitution? Why is it left to vets to protect not only free speech. But the abuse of power of the presidency?

Fauci has served six US presidents. President trump has defined the C-19 virus as a war and himself as a wartime president. Yet the GOP/trump right wing has decided to attack Fauci's legitimate credibility.Because truth threatens trump's narrative of covid impotence. To the detriment of the war and of American lives. The attacks have degraded the ability of US health authorities to save American lives in this war. That picture has one purpose and Mr. Fauci has never acted to the detriment of his duties. Like Mattis he has served and bit his tongue in the face of lies and unjust criticism. That picture has one purpose.Just too bad some don't recognize its purpose.

Protester accidentally shoots self in foot outside Florissant police station Bring a loaded rifle to a protest with one in the chamber, presumably safety off, presumably pull the trigger and shoot yourself in the foot in front of police stn.

No this is right wing hypocrisy. Competition delivers the cheapest products to the American consumer. Just turn competition loose and everyone benefits. Corporate Insiders Pocket $1 Billion in Rush for Coronavirus Vaccine "Well-timed stock bets have generated big profits for senior executives and board members at companies developing vaccines and treatments. On June 26, a small South San Francisco company called Vaxart made a surprise announcement: A coronavirus vaccine it was working on had been selected by the U.S. government to be part of Operation Warp Speed, the flagship federal initiative to quickly develop drugs to combat Covid-19. Vaxart’s shares soared. Company insiders, who weeks earlier had received stock options worth a few million dollars, saw the value of those awards increase sixfold. And a hedge fund that partly controlled the company walked away with more than $200 million in instant profits. The race is on to develop a coronavirus vaccine, and some companies and investors are betting that the winners stand to earn vast profits from selling hundreds of millions — or even billions — of doses to a desperate public."

I'll defer to your capitulation.

When they answer questions from the press. When they go "off script". No Trump dismisses his daily coronavirus press briefings as “not worth the time & effort” Six Times Donald Trump's White House Has Refused to Answer Reporters' Questions "The crowding of the West Wing hallway, in what is known as 'upper press,' has become the new norm for reporters seeking information or comment from the White House on major headlines over the past 35 days – a record for the span of time without an on-camera briefing during President Donald Trump’s time in office." trump will either refuse to answer, refuse to have reporters question him,lie, deny making past statements, attack the press, or walk out. That ignores softball questions from him hand picking the FOX reporters he likes. Still waiting for you to take the lead with trump's great ideas thread.

FIFY Why don't you try a thread that states the good ideas, statements and actions that originate from trump himself. Not from prepared statements he reads. His non-scripted thinking. Turtle and other trump supporters will help you.

Turtle should like your post/thread. Because straws are at the core of the thinking.

Misinformation is not like a plumbing problem you fix. It is a social condition, like crime, that you must constantly monitor and adjust to. "When BBC Future Now interviewed a panel of 50 experts in early 2017 about the “grand challenges we face in the 21st century” many named the breakdown of trusted information sources. “The major new challenge in reporting news is the new shape of truth,” said Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine. “Truth is no longer dictated by authorities, but is networked by peers. For every fact there is a counterfact and all these counterfacts and facts look identical online, which is confusing to most people.”

If you test negative yesterday you can be positive yesterday.Just sayin.

American Catastrophe Through German Eyes NYT editiorial Basis of above story fro Der Spiegel Democracy on the Defensive in Trump's America "Not long ago, it seemed absurd to question the strength of America's system of checks and balances. U.S. democracy, more than 200 years old, has survived numerous crises and its resilience has always withstood attempts to grab power. But after more than three years of Trump, and despite him being the democratically elected president, the foundations of American democracy have grown brittle. Trump has continually pushed back the limits of what was considered acceptable under his predecessors. Flouting tradition, he placed the powerful Department of the Interior and the intelligence agencies in the hands of loyal acolytes. "It's very frightening," says Rosa Brooks, a professor of law at Georgetown University. "I hope that I'm being much too paranoid but it's hard not to think of things like the Reichstag fire at this moment." Both outline the rise and danger of fascism and the lessons learned from a German pov. It seems absurd that this thread has so few responses.I guess 1100 dead Americans a day has properly distracted America from trump's latest outrage.

Fauci July 13."Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested on Monday that the current nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases was due to the United States not shutting down completely in its initial response to the virus.... “We did not shut down entirely and that’s the reason why we went up,” said Fauci during a virtual conversation hosted by Stanford Medicine. “We started to come down and then we plateaued at a level that was really quite high, about 20,000 infections a day. Then as we started to reopen, we’re seeing the surges that we’re seeing today as we speak.” US shutdown was about 50% in reality, EU is 90%. Fox news yesterday. So two weeks ago Fauci warned the lack of breadth in the US shutdown was leading to new cases. Now he has come out again with the same statement as the cause of current US exploding infections. Just too bad that these factors in infection have to be searched instead of coming from the WH. Too bad that minds like Fauci are forbidden by trump to tell it like it is from the WH podium. Ten million by the election?

As trump calls for schools to reopen he cancels the GOP convention and his rallies. Kids are cheap and easily replaced. Old white republican men are a different story.

"Shut it down and restart. That's what more than 150 health professionals are urging government leaders in an open letter published earlier this week. "Tell the American people the truth about the virus, even when it’s hard. Take bold action to save lives — even when it means shutting down again," the letter, spearheaded by the nonprofit U.S. Public Interest Research Group, says." Yet the now politicized CDC has just come out with a "Open All Schools" directive. It has officially caved to trumpism.

A person usually has a soul.

What does Maxwell have on trump and will Donald's pardon just cover him?